PDF Annotation

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Hello All,

I am looking for a way to annotate pdf files in DevonThink and have those annotations be searchable (i.e. the content of the annotations be included in the search results). I have looked for the feature directly in DevonThink Pro Office 2.0 (which I am currently using) and couldn’t find it, nor could did a search of the forum provide any results on the matter. I have tried making notes in Preview and while they will show up in DevonThink they are not included in the search results (per my informal testing). In essence, I want to be able to make marginal notes/comments and have them be searchable in DevonThink. Does anyone know how this can be done?

Many thanks in advance!

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The annotations created by Acrobat, Skim and Preview are not part of the searchable ‘text layer’ of PDFs, so cannot searched currently in DEVONthink 2.

There have been a number of requests to enable searches of note annotations created by Skim, and Christian has noted that this may be possible in a future release.

I’ve been merrily associating rich text notes with documents of all filetypes for a long time. I’ve posted the link to a little example database at:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8125&p=37945&hilit=+associating+notes+#p37945

That database can also be easily converted into a Web site as noted in the above post.